Paterno family are in denial

Sounds like a poliboard post.

If only Joe cared as much about the victims as they care about clearing his name.

I saw this scroll across the ESPN Ticker the other night. The story is exhausted. Joe Pa is dead. Sandusky is in prison. The program has been placed under Sanctions and Coach O'Brien is handling it accordingly. They just need to accept it and move on. They should build a Joe Pa/Penn State "shrine" in their den and reminisce the good ole days.

I don't think defending your dad or husband is a cult. It may be denial, but majority of families will do this and its not cultish.

Be that as it may, they are still coming off as stupid to everyone except the small portion of the Penn State community that condones child molestation.

The Paterno family needs to hide in seclusion.

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They are trying to discount a report that interviewed 463 people..

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Did you read their report?

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They are trying to discount a report that interviewed 463 people.

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More like 30 people and relied upon less than that in the majority of their conclusions.

It's his family - they claim to know the man better than anyone. You can say it's cultish if some fanbase or students paid for this report...but it's the family. That's something entirely different. The Freeh report isn't just attacking JoePa but them and their family and the Freeh report tried JoePa in the public forum w/o a rebuttal. There was no trial for JoePa...so this is essentially his defense. Nothing wrong with that in America.

They remind me of the vatican.

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Jay Paterno was on mike and mike this a.m. Basically, you have to believe that Joe Pa knew absolutely nothing about the '98 investigation into Sandusky to buy the Paterno family's side of the story.

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kind of hard to believe JoPa wouldn't know about something so serious that involved his then assumed head coach in waiting who had been on his staff for 30 years.